MianwaliChashma-5’s dome is up, 1,200 megawatts pending.
Nuclear supplies 16.6% of Pakistan’s electricity from 8.6% of capacity, the atomic energy commission says.
The sealed dome ends civil works, and installation begins on Pakistan’s seventh nuclear plant built with help from China.
“Power that does not rise and fall with the price of imported fuel,” said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The government expects first electricity in September 2030.
How each outlet framed it
- Dawn leans favorable
- stresses that nuclear power does not depend on imported fuel prices, sun or wind, and runs through the night
Sources: Dawn